Seaver, Piazza, Wright, and Strawberry.

"There is no question Wright is the face of the franchise these days, even though we haven’t seen his face in months. When his career is over, he will go down as the team’s all-time record holder in almost every offensive category and he clearly is a fan favorite. He will likely join Ed Kranepool as the only homegrown Mets to play their entire careers in Queens, and certainly is deserving of his place in Mets history. But Gooden wasn’t just the biggest player on the Mets or in New York in the mid-’80s, he was the biggest thing in all of baseball. He was on the cover of Time Magazine and had a huge Nike ad on the side of a building in midtown. Every start was must see TV."

Wright belongs.

If you want to make a case for Gooden ... I'll go with Strawberry instead ... then the guy who gets replaced is Hernandez.


"Think Harvey Day is a big deal now? Multiply that by about 1,000 and maybe you come close to the aura and excitement every Gooden start produced."

Multiply it by a million trillion zillion.


"It’s crazy to say now, but Gooden, had he stayed away from drugs and out of trouble, could have even surpassed Seaver as the greatest Met of all time. But his drug troubles and the suspensions that came with them put an end to his Met career after 1994, just 10 years after he took New York by storm."

No, that doesn't sound crazy, but it's a pretty big if, wouldn't you say?


Also, when you said "just ten years," that is a longer Mets career than Hernandez or Piazza ... and, come to think of it, that's basically the same length as Seaver's career with the Mets.

So when you say "just 10 years," what the heck are you talking about?